The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
CARL SAGANOur species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles.
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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.
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Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
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Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.
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Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
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